The Use of Smartphones by Graduate Students in Educational Technologies: a Case Study

• Elvis Medeiros de Melo UFRN
• Dennys Leite Maia UFRN

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5753/ctrle.2019.8882

Abstract

The society is experiencing moments of changing habits, due to the development of digital mobile technologies, such as smartphones. Approaches based on the use of one mobile device per student (one to one, or 1: 1) are being disseminated, among them the BYOD (Bring your own device) proposal. Given this reality, how do postgraduate students in Educational Technologies perceive the use of smartphones in educational environments? About 64% of the students with active link participated in the study. Through a case study, a survey was applied and Similitude Analysis was performed through the construction of graphs in the software IRaMuTeQ. Among the results, all students have their own smartphone with mobile internet and 51% did not participate in training for their pedagogical use.

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